Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

slave lake

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables
slave lake
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Former name of Great Slave Lake: a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

name

Former name of Lesser Slave Lake: a lake in Alberta, Canada.

name

A town in Lesser Slave, Alberta, Canada, on Lesser Slave Lake, at the head of Lesser Slave River.

Etymology

From being a lake named after the Slavey people, from French Esclave, from esclave (“slave”), from Cree term for slaves, from being a Cree exonym for the Slavey people.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Phrases

Great Slave Lake Lesser Slave Lake Slave River

Questions

What does slave lake mean?
Former name of Great Slave Lake: a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Where does slave lake come from?
It is traced to French.

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